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...South: At 3 a.m. on July 22, Geneva's decision reached into Saigon's palm-shaded Palais Gialong, 400 miles south of the 17th parallel. A light burned in a first-floor office. Disillusioned and sleepless, Viet Nam's Prime Minister Ngo Dinh Diem opened the cablegram from Geneva and read...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: INDO-CHINA: The Anguished Peace | 8/2/1954 | See Source »

Only one of the staff of the night watchmen openly admits having made a serious error while on the job. Joseph Brannan, who is stationed at Langdell Hall in the Law School confesses that one night he saw what he took to a local vandal climbing in through a first-floor window. It was too late to rectify his mistake when, having run his man down, he discovered him to be a middle-aged, still athletic, professor...

Author: By Peter V. Shackter, | Title: Nightmen Guard College Despite Spooks, Pranks | 3/10/1954 | See Source »

When the move is completed, the Ticket Office will be housed in a large first-floor room, where HAA Publicity Director W. Henry Johnston and his secretary, Jean MacIver, have been unpacking crates of notebooks and papers (upper right). Until the end of the current football season, though, tickets will continue to be sold from the familiar counters in the basement of the Union (above, left...

Author: By Robert M. Oneil, | Title: After 28 Years, Athletic Association Moves to Shannon Hall | 10/31/1953 | See Source »

Visitors to Manhattan's Museum of Modern Art have seen everything from eggbeaters to garbage cans displayed as works of art. Last week it was automobiles. On crushed stone runways in the museum's first-floor galleries and garden stood shining examples of what the museum calls "hollow rolling sculpture...

Author: /time Magazine | Title: Art: Hollow Rolling Sculpture | 9/10/1951 | See Source »

...assignment followed the idea of covering the subway yards with a terrace and building a housing development on top. Moving the yards out altogether, however, makes the plan much easier and more practical. The development might also include badly-needed parking space, a theatre, a few attractive first-floor shops, and a hockey rink...

Author: By Alan I. W. frank, | Title: Cambridge: City of Education and of Slums; Its Experts Plan, Hope but Rarely Get Results | 4/27/1951 | See Source »

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